In an ordinal scale, verifying the score and ruling out a higher score is important. Clinicians need to make sure the person is able to pay attention to the quality of information which their score represents. Be sure to carefully verify the ACL score and personally examine the real activity environment before you offer an opinion. Distortions and important omissions are common in these situations. Secondary gain with a history of good verbal abilities, charisma or theatrics has a tendency to make sustaining your objectivity difficult.
An opportunity to process information above the person's score must be provided.
To be fair, the information from the adjacent higher mode must be available.
After the mode is verified, make sure that the information in the next mode does not arouse the person's attention.